“Our vote is for tiffin”, “We are all voting for tiffin” were some of the war cries heard on the streets of Gulbarga. Even local Congress leaders and workers were campaigning to get all the votes for “tiffin”. The year was 1980 when the Congress high-command had nominated Chambakassery Mathai Stephen aka C.M. Stephen who was from Kerala and had no connect whatsoever from this backward district of north Karnataka. He never even went there to campaign. The local Congress leaders, finding it difficult to pronounce his name, had adopted the easier “tiffin” moniker for campaign purposes and the gullible masses followed suit. C.M. Stephen won the seat easily and went on to become a minister in the Indira cabinet. Such were the times of “the idea of India” democracy.
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As Mumbai votes, we look at how it is looking at 2 PM
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